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<div><div>Bigger challenges. Bolder ideas. Global impact. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. We're the company behind the world's fastest satellite internet service, with technology that's helping to bridge the digital divide and improve life for our customers around the globe. By providing powerful new ways for people to connect with one another, gain greater access to education, entertainment, medical research, commerce, and much more, our team is empowering millions of customers worldwide.</div><div><br/>
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We're growing rapidly and looking for passionate, innovative professionals to join our team and connect the world to more. You'll work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning, and provides industry-leading benefits with unmatched opportunities for career growth. Our team is fearless in pursuit of new ideas and uncompromising in our quest to become the world's first truly global Internet Service Provider. Interested in joining our mission? Take a look at career opportunities at Viasat today.</div></div><div><br/>
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Job Responsibilities</b></p><p>
Every day, petabytes of data from Viasat networks across the globe are collected, processed, and stored - and our Cybersecurity Analytics team within ANCS mines this data to reveal new insights. The Cyber Security Data Scientist will leverage cutting edge technologies to perform statistical analysis and inference, data modeling, clustering and predictive analysis. As a key member of the technical team, you will translate cyber and network security related questions into statistical models and help derive new insights to drive business decisions, and protect and defend against cyber-attacks. You will be working with unique data sets, security appliances and interdisciplinary teams to create complete and holistic analyses. You will use statistics to focus on network traffic due to malware and cyber threat detection that will analyze and predict and their security risks.</p><p><b>
Our Team</b></p><p>
Our Cyber Security Data Analytics Team is dedicated to keeping our customers safe and making our networks cyber resilient while preserving our casual, start-up atmosphere and environment. On ViaSat’s multiple networks we see a diversity of cyber-attacks every day including from the most sophisticated attackers, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and nation states. We employ the latest technologies (Spark, Kafka, Impala, Hadoop) to analyze the Petabytes of data our operational systems collect. Our developers, data scientists, security analyst and engineers collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to gain insight; solving both business and technical problems.
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Cybersecurity Data Scientists serve as the backbone of the Cybersecurity Analytics team. They get to do:</p><p></p><ul><li><br/>
Use data-driven statistical methodologies to discover/develop and abstract key security and malware metrics across multiple network segments to support network traffic due to malware and security threat evaluation and analysis, including evaluation of alternate threat detection and network bandwidth consumption due to malware statistics and future business scenarios</li><li>Architect, Design, Build and Support statistical models using both real time and historical analysis approaches to support security, business, technical planning, and decision-making</li><li>Create visualizations and reports to effectively convey the information discovered through data analysis</li></ul><p><b>
Our Ideal Candidate</b></p><p>
We value curiosity, learning, and adaptability. Our ideal candidate loves solving complex and diverse cybersecurity problems using machine learning and statistical algorithms.</p><p><b>
In this position, you will:</b></p><ul><li> Design and develop cybersecurity analytical tools</li></ul><p><b>
Requirements</b></p><ul><li>Pursuing a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Informatics, Data Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience</li><li>Experience using statistical and machine learning models</li><li>Experience or exposure with data analysis tools such as R, Python, Jupyter, Anaconda, Scikit-learn, BigML, TensorFlow, RapidMiner, Weka, Matlab, Tableau and Others</li><li>Interested in pursuing a career in the cybersecurity domain</li><li>Ability to travel up to 10%</li></ul></div><div><div><p><b>
Preferences</b></p><ul><li>Classes or working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tool chains (Jenkins)</li><li>Classes or previous Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Impala, MapReduce or other big data technologies experience</li><li>Classes or previous experience with Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration</li><li>Classes or familiar with several languages, for example, Python, Scala, C/C++, Lua, Go, Haskell</li></ul></div></div></body>
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